Tom Cruise, the last great movie star, has just turned 61 — and what a throwback he is. In a Hollywood dulled by CGI he’s the last action hero who puts his body on the line in every movie he makes. Cruise isn’t just an actor and producer, he immerses himself in everything, as one friend puts it, like a “one-man studio”.
Last summer Top Gun: Maverick made a gargantuan $1.5 billion at the box office, and Cruise’s next epic, Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, is expected to match that when it hits the multiplexes this month. After 42 years in a fickle business, he is back with a vengeance, enjoying his most successful run since that golden decade from 1986 to
